Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Alice in Blunderland: “The Dance of Death” and war between the sexes
November 7, 2014This production of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg's 1900 "The Dance of Death," now playing in Pasadena, is expertly acted and directed.
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New directions for LA opera: “Dido and Aeneas/Bluebeard’s Castle”
November 3, 2014LA Opera's edgy double feature takes this august art form in other directions and shows the possibilities of different modes of expression for the operatic medium.
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“Force majeure” film review: What would you do?
October 28, 2014A stylish movie about a middle-class couple vacationing in the Alps with their childen, when something goes wrong to rock their relationships to the core.
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French New Wave classic flows back onto the screen
October 22, 2014The late 1950s and early 1960s was a pivotal, heady, historic time for French cinema, as Nouvelle Vague or New Wave classics flowed onto the screen.
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“Dear White People”: A wild and crazy “post-racial” campus comedy
October 20, 2014Justin Simien's "Dear White People" is like current affairs written with enlightening ideas about the state of race relations in today's supposedly "post-racial" USA.
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The Revolution is coming to a theater near you: 1969 in review
October 20, 2014One of the great things about the theater is that it can dramatize history, and the people who make it and shake it.
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Review: Smiling through the Apocalypse, Esquire in the 60s
October 7, 2014Esquire editor Harold Hayes was arguably to magazines what famous literary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe) was to novels.
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“The Trip To Bountiful” in review
September 29, 2014The entire house rose at the premiere to give Cicely Tyson and the cast a well-deserved standing ovation.
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